Improvement in machines for making ruffles



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J. A. PIPO. RUFPLING MACHINE.

No. 37,550. Patented 1311.27, 1868.

Tu: nbnms PETERS 0a.. PHOTO-LING, WASHINGTON o c UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHhI A. PI PO, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.', ASSIGNORTOHI MSELF AND SAMUEL S. SHERWOOD, OF AOQUAGKANONOK, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES FOR MAKING RUFFLES, 80C.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 37,560, dated January 27, 1863.

' To all wlzom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN A. PIPO, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Machines for the Manufacture ofRuflies, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this inventioxris to provide means of forming and sewing a ruifle between,

two pieces or folds of cloth at one and the same operation, the r uffie and both pieces of cloth being secured by a simple seam.

This invention consists in the combination ofthree guides-one for the rnflding andone for each of the pieces of cloth between which the rufflingissewed-and the pawl which forms the rufflin g as the work progresses with a sewingmachine, by which the work is fed through and sewed, as hereinafter more fully set forth. In the case in which the rufliing is secured between two folds of the same piece of cloth a single guide, made for the purpose, may take the place of the two separate guides used when the ruffling is secured between two separate pieces of cloth to guide those separate pieces.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view,

representing an ordinary Wheeler 85 Wilson,

sewing-machine with my improvement at- .tached. Fig. 2 is an end view of the-same, showing the end toward the observer, which is at the right hand in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a dethrough which the strips of cloth between;

which the'rufiling is to be sewed are passed. These guides are made tubular, as represented in Fig. 3, the internal width of the tube or openiugat-the outer end being sufliciently wide to admit a strip of cloth of the proper width. The end next the needle of each of these pieces or guides is so formed as to turn in the edge of the cloth to form a hem, said edge being turned in each case toward the other guide, so that the fold or hem shall come next the ruffling.

(3 is a tube, which guides the strip of cloth of which the ruffling is'formed. This tube is flat, like the others, and with a proper internal points or a roughened surface or sharp edge,

which will take hold of the cloth and move it forward upon the smooth surface which forms the under part of the guide 6, and is attached to the bar 8, which extends over the other attachments and forms a part of the rocking lever 9, hung to a pendant attached to the bedplate of the machine. Thislever 9 is vibrated on its axis 10 by means of theconnecting-rod 11, which rises against the horizontal portion of the lever, and thus moves the cloth from which the ruffling is formed forward to form the ruffling. The motion of this lever is ad- .justed by means of the set-screw 12, which restricts its return. The bar 8, and consequently the lever 9, are drawn back from each forward vibration by a spiral spring, 13, which is attached at one end to this bar andat the other end to the bed of the machine.

Operation: The proper strips of cloth, naving been inserted in their respective guides, are brought forward, so as to be operated upon by the feed motion. Motionis given to the machine by means which are usually employed for that purpose and in.the ordinary manner. The edges of the cloth between which the ruffling is to be sewed are folded in by the guides, as before stated, and the whole three strips are fed forward and sewed together in the same manner that other sewing is done on the same machine by a single seam. The rutfle, which is guided in between the other strips of eloth,is formed by pawl 7, which is made to move at each stroke of the needle a snflicient distance over and above the feed iusted to form various grades of ruffliug by the means already described. 7

It is obvious that tubes of different widths may be employed to farm ruffling of different; widths or to admit strips of cloth of different widths between which the ruffling is to be sewed.

I claim- The combination, with a sewing-machine, of the guide 6, the guides 4 and 5, or a double guide in their piaee, intended to form two folds of a single piece of cloth, and the pawl 7, substantially as herein descrihed.

JOHN ANDREW PIPO.

.Witnesses: L. A. ROBERTS, THOS. P. How. 

